Vehicle-axle



(No Model.)

B. W. JUSTICE 8u W. A.,JOHNSTON.

VEHICLE AXLB.

Patented Feb. 8, 1898.

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VEHiCLE-AXLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,786, dated February 8, 1898.

Application filed .Tune 9,1897.

To @ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that we, BERNARD W. JUSTICE1 and WILLIAM A. JOHNSTON, citizens of thel United States, residing at Narrows, in the county of Giles and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Axle, of which'the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in vehicle-axles.

The object of the present invention is to,

improve the construction of vehicle-axles and to provide a simple, inexpensive,and efficient device which will be capable of supporting an axle and enabling the same to withstand heavy strains.

A further object of the invention is to provide such a device which will be adapted to be readily applied to broken or injured axles to enable the same to be used without further repairing and to obviate the necessity of providing a new axle.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings,l and pointed out in the claims hereto appended. j

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a vehicle-axle constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the sleeves.

Like numerals of reference designate correspending parts in the several figures of the drawings.

l designates an axle consisting of awooden body and provided at its ends with skeins 2, secured to the axle and receiving sleeves 3, which form the collars 0r shoulders of the spindles of the axle. The collars consist of annular flanges or enlargements of the outer edges of the sleeves 3, and the latter, which are tapered to conform to the configuration y turnbuckle 6, having right and left hand Serial No. 640,014. (No model.)

I threaded openings, androds 7, having their inner ends correspondingly threaded and fit-v ting in the threaded openings of the turnbuckle. The outer ends of the rods pass through perforations of blocks 8 and are provided with heads 9 to engage shoulders thereof. The blocks 8, which are oppositely tapered, as shown, iit against the lower face of the axle and are secured between the arms 3 by rivets or other suitable fastening devices.

They are also supported by bolts l0, whichV to be applied to an ordinary axle should ity become broken or strained, and it will bracesuch an injured axle, so that it may be used for hauling loads as heavy as those hauled before it wasbroken.

It will be seen that the device is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to that class of axles which consist of a wooden body and metal skeins, and that it will afford a firm support for the` saine. It will also be clear that it may be readily applied to such an axle after the same has been broken or otherwise injured, and that when so applied the axle will be capable of sustaining as great a weight as it could before it was broken.

What we claim isl. The'combination with an axle, of axleskeins tapering toward their outer ends and fitting on the ends of the axle, the tapering sleeves fitting on the inner portions of the skeins, forming collars for the same and engaging the said skeins detachably,said sleeves ybeing provided with integral inwardly-extending arms, and an adjustable device connecting the arms of the sleeves, whereby the latter and the skeins are retained on the axle, substantially as described.

2. In a device of theclass described, the

combination with an axle provided with tapering skeins, of tapering sleeves arranged on the inner portions of the skeins, engaging the same and forming collars for them, said sleeves being provided with arms arranged in pairs at opposite sides of the axle and depending below the same, blocks located below the axle and secured between the depending portions of the arms, and an adjusting device connecting the blocks, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with an axle, of tapering skeins arranged on the ends of the axle, the tapering sleeves engaging the inner portions of the skeins and retaining the latter on the axle, said sleeves being provided with inwardlyextending arms arranged in pairs and depend- BERNARD W. JUSTICE. WILLIAM A. JOHNSTON.

Witnesses:

C. J. FRENCH, J. A. PAINTER. 

